A HALF CENTURY OF LIFE IN BLACK/WHITE AMERICA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CRIME OF HUMANITY ON BLACK RACE

In looking back over my life and all of it's over a half-century of experience.  I do not believe black racism is something people are born with.  I spent my younger years in the 1960's and 1970's.  I went to First Grade in a small town in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 1965.  The height of the Civil Rights movement in America.  But, as a child, I truly saw no division drawn by racism in my own personal life.

The first kid I met and became friends with in my life introduction to the public school system.  Was a black boy named Andy.  I never remember thinking he was black.  I just remember we liked the same things, same toys, same jokes, same everything.  A person is not defined by the color of their skin, even a young child recognizes that.  We connect with fellow humans through the person we recognize through their eyes.  The windows to their souls.

I remember housekeepers who sometimes brought their young child or children with them to play with us.  As they worked on cleaning our or our neighbor's homes.  We played together, laughed together, shared secrets together, shared thoughts of what our futures, "when I grow up," were as we saw them.  When Andy said he wanted to be a fireman when he grew up.  He wasn't being an "Uncle Tom," "Oreo," "not black enough" or looking at life "whitey's way."  He was just a young American kid, like every other young American kid.  Thinking about what adult career he thought would be fun, rewarding and something he wanted to be.

I remember being excited at my Grandmother's house, when her black housekeeper was going to bring over her grandchildren to play with us.  While she did her work.

I remember riding my bike through Shantytown where most of the black community lived.  On my way to buy two used tractor trailer truck inner-tubes.  That I could take home and patch so they didn't leak.  Then drill holes in a piece of plywood around the circumference of the inner tubes laid below the plywood.  To run rope through and around the inner tubes, tie off the attached  inner tubes for a river raft.  To float down the South river.  That was probably a three mile bike ride, I had to be between 6 and 8 years old, because I was 8 when I moved to Virginia Beach.

I wasn't scared riding my bike through the black neighborhood.  I didn't see angry black people wanting to beat me up.  I saw black kids playing, smiling, waving, stopping me to talk.  I saw black mothers hanging clothes on their clothes lines, waving, smiling at me, as I did so in return.  I got an occasional, "Now boys, you be careful now.  There are a lot of big trucks down that road."  Black mothers smiling and waving, looking out for my own safety.  I never remember thinking they were poor.  They didn't reflect an attitude that they were poor or anything less than I was.  It was just all people, colorless, exhibiting good people qualities and common shared values.

I was raised singing, "Jesus loves the little children.  All the children of the world red, brown, yellow, black and white. They are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world."  I'm sure those black children were raised singing the same thing.  What positive valued parent would promote racial division to their own children, instill "you are not as good as them," in their own children?  I never remember hearing racially divisive rhetoric in my young years of life.  I never remember feeling any fear of black people nor looking down on them.  We were just all people.  I believe our common faith in Christianity for the most part, as a society served unity.  Because, we shared those common values which defined our lives and how we lived as people, regardless of color.

While I was living in that colorblind world, the same as I saw other black people interacting with me.  Reflecting a colorblind world overall.  A world away in Washington, the Democrat party was filibustering in Congress against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to deny black people Civil Rights in America.

In THAT time in American history the black community leadership was Martin Luther King, Jr.  Who was an all positive energy black community leader.  He didn't promote violence. He didn't promote harsh racial rhetoric.  He didn't promote hatred towards others.  He didn't promote, "you can never get ahead."  He didn't promote government handouts for his people to make them weaker, instead of stronger.  He promoted racial equality, NOT racial division!  Like we see black community leaders of today do.

It's truly unfortunate that Martin Luther King was murdered.  Because, were he alive today?  I truly believe there would be no racial division in America.  Because, he would be the supreme black community leader and his message was never, "you can't because you are black," but, "you can, because you are just like everybody else."  Martin Luther King would have never supported people like Al Sharpton or the Black Panthers or even the modern day N.A.A.C.P..  Because, they are on the exact opposite side of his own displayed personal values, beliefs, speeches, writings and perspectives of America and what being black in America is all about.  He would have spoken against those in the black community who choose to loot, riot and burn down things.  Rather than justify those actions like so many black community leaders of today.

I remember after moving to Virginia Beach.  Shifting my public school education to Virginia Beach starting in the Fourth grade.  I had many black kids in my class.  Again, we all were friends.  We liked the same things, same jokes, same toys, same sports.  We laughed together, smiled together, got in trouble together, played together.  I still saw nothing but unity between the black and white kids in school.

In Junior High School, the same thing.  I was involved in the school sports programs, Football, Wrestling and Track.  We were all just one big group of colorless kids, working together, talking about life together, talking about girls together.  Enjoying, appreciating and respecting each other in true sincere friendship of depth.  Some of my best friends in school that I appreciated the most there were black kids I did sports with.  We didn't hang out after school.  But, I think we just all saw that as we lived in different communities.  So, we weren't in close proximity to hang out.

But, when I got to High School. When Jesse Jackson was at the helm of black community leadership.  Is when I remember the first sting of racism.  That's when my black friends got all wrapped up on "black power," etc..  I remember probably my closest black friend just crushing my heart one day in high school.  When I went up to him smiling and patted him on his back to talk to him.  He looked at me and said, "I can't hang out with you because you are white and I am black."  Then he totally dissed me.  That really, really hurt me deeply.  Life had forever changed in how I would see things.  Not by white on black racism, but black on white racism.  I had never rejected any of those black kids as my friends, because they were black.  They were rejecting me, because I was white.

Music was the only place I saw true sincerity of friendship across the color lines during my high school years.  Which in my life and own personal experience were lines that had been drawn by blacks against whites, not whites against blacks.  Whereas, looking back to my younger childhood days.  I can recognize that the prevailing prevalence of the Christian religion on American society.  Created a bond of common system of personal values and appreciations that seemed to have bridged the color gap.  In how myself and my black friends saw no defining differences between ourselves.  Because, in our souls we shared the same personal values, understanding of moral character, etc..  Music, as it's own religion did the same thing.  Music, in my opinion, is a religion. A common ground sharing of values, appreciations, mutual respect.

During my high school years.  The only time I felt a presence of complete racial unity and harmony, as opposed to racial division, was when sharing music with black friends.  It was odd.  Because, with those black friends I played music with?  During the actual times we were playing music together?  We were operating in a sincere, heartfelt, appreciative, respectful colorblind friendship through our shared "religion" of music.  But, when we encountered each other outside of those music moments, like in school?  Things went right back to "you are white and I am black," not from me, but, from them.  Even those who tried to carry one a publicly visible friendship outside of the shared music experience realm.  It seemed they were trying to share a sincere friendship, but were uncomfortable doing so openly.  For fear their other black friends might see them smiling, laughing enjoying my "white" company, as a friend.

In everyday life throughout my public education system experience.  I never personally, saw or experienced, white on black rejection, because of skin color.  But, only black on white rejection, because of skin color.

In college, life seemed more segregated.  There wasn't a huge black community at my college.  The only time I remember feeling any sense of prevalence of racism during my college years.  Was when I was waiting to talk to my college counselor about scheduling my next year of classes.  As I was sitting waiting for my turn to see the counselor.  There was a black kid, gloating about how he had qualified, because of his skin color, for and been given $2,000 more in financial aid grants than he actually needed to pay for his classes.  More money than he actually needed to pay for his tuition and he was going to use the extra $2,000 to buy a good car.  Which at that time would have bought a pretty decent car.  While I was sitting there with no car and feeling, "there is something terribly wrong with this situation."  He did look at me and make some snide remark like, "Don't you wish you could get this?"  I did feel a sense of resentment.

Then once I was out of college and on my own. Supporting myself, working for myself, creating my own self-employed career.  Things seemed to come back to a color blind world in my every day life.  The black kids who hung out at places I played, mostly college bars at that time.  Were in college, trying to get ahead just like the white kids.  Blacks could crack innocent white people jokes, and whites could crack innocent black people jokes and both sides laughed.  Nobody got offended.  I felt no sense of racial division in my everyday life.  I had good friends I developed whom were black and I believe they saw me in the same light, even though I was white.  We were all just people, colorless, out in the world trying to make our name, careers, futures.  To be able to buy homes, cars, raise families, etc..

Today?  I still see my life in that place I found after college once entering the real world.  Trying to make my way, raise and educate my family, just like everybody else, regardless of color.

It really hasn't been until Obama came along, elected by an obvious color blind American society.  In the fact that he got elected in the first place.  That I've felt a strong sense of racial division prevalent around me in my life.  ALL of it driven by Obama, Holder, Liberals, Democrats.  I truly was blown away the first time I was called a racist, by a Liberal/Democrat.  For simply disagreeing with an Obama policy.  Which I would have felt the exact same way about if Obama were white.  I don't even think about Obama as being black.  The only people who seem to focus on Obama's color are Liberals/Democrats themselves.  As a tool to try to make people feel like if they disagree with Obama or Holder's political policies.  Then they are some horrid moral character person, because Obama and Holder are black.

The Liberals/Democrats have been using race for six years.  To try and force people to accept things being forced upon their own lives, freedoms, liberties, rights.  Which they fundamentally disagree with on principles of those things.  Yet, are accused of disagreeing on those things, based on pure skin color.  To try and force people to accept things against their own will, that they see as hurtful to their own lives.

In the last six years, after having lived a half century in America in the black and white experience?  The racism imposed by Liberal/Democrats in our society as tool of division, "divide and conquer" upon our society?  Is the greatest period of time in my life of having to experience, black and white, division in American society.

Liberalism and the Democratic party are the most prevalent purveyors of racism.  I have experienced in my whole life.  When you use someone's skin color as a tool to try and further your own agenda, place of power through pitting races against each other?  You are the most demonic racists that could ever possibly exist.

I truly hope the black community one day wakes up and sees.  How those who claim to care about them the most, Liberals/Democrats, are their own greatest enemy holding them back in their own personal successes and achievements in our America of today.

It's the same Democrats who owned the plantations of the Old South.  Who refused to allow blacks to get a good education, to think they ever had a chance of making it on their own.  To keep them compliant as slaves under the thumb of their Democrat masters, plantation owners.  It's the same Democrats that formed and perpetuated black hatred through the Ku Klux Klan.  It's the same Democrats that filibustered to keep blacks from being allowed Civil Rights by law.  Its the same Democrats that today try to deny blacks better education to provide them self-empowerment.  Through trying to keep out of black communities, charter schools and school voucher programs.  Which allow blacks better quality education programs to allow their children to self-empower, self-elevation out of poverty and ghetto communities.

It's the same Democrats, who once owned the slave plantations of the south.  Who today, try to keep America's blacks from feeling they have a chance to make it on their own.  By creating government entitlement programs to support the blacks, so they will feel they cannot make it on their own.  Nothing has changed and nothing ever will change in America as far as blacks getting ahead as a whole race.  As long as they adhere to and believe.  Those who keep them from self-empowerment are truly not looking out for them, or advancing them as a race.

Those same Democrats that 150 years ago, did everything they could.  To keep blacks from leaving the Democrat owned plantations of the old south, by denying them quality education, hope, self-empowerment.  For the exact same reasons we see those Democrats doing the same today!  Because, if the blacks figured out they didn't have to depend on the Plantations of the old south for food, clothing and a roof over their head?  The same as if the blacks of TODAY figure out they don't have to depend on the Democrat government entitlement "Plantations" of today for food, clothing and a roof over their heads?  Then the Democrat party will cease to exist, be destroyed as a powerful force of power and control over the black community.  The exact same way the old Plantations of the south did.

Once blacks are encouraged to be independent, become well-educated, believe in themselves, feel hope, know personal opportunity is out there daily available to them too? Build their own individual better places in life?  They will no longer see the need for the Democrat party and recognize the true demoralizing impact of the Democrat party, on their race and it's advancement, throughout the Democrat party's existence in America.

By them taking advantage of the American Dream which has been achieved by so many black Americans of today.  The same black American Dream achievers in today's society.  That today's black community leaders, Liberals, Democrats call "Uncle Toms," "Oreos," "not black enough."  For simply refusing to stay on the Democrat plantations.  Whether in the days of Democrat oppression of blacks 150 years ago, purposely kept "in their places" through no sense of ability in self-empowerment... for the odds were stacked against them... BY DEMOCRATS!  Or TODAY'S Democrat oppression of blacks purposely kept "in their places" through no sense of hope in ability for self-empowerment... for the odds are stacked against them... BY DEMOCRATS!!

That's a half century of watching it all and taking it all in, through a lifetime of experience, and living a life in America.

The Democrat party has been the most racially oppressive entity in American history towards the black community, in the whole history of our nation.  Until the black community finally recognizes the sins of the Democrat party's whole history upon their race as a whole?  Nothing will ever change for them in positive, individual, self-empowerment ways as members of a race in America.  They will continue to remain with the odds stacked against them, in their own mentality.  Purposely, imposed upon them, by their own leaders.  It's a down right shame.  It's a down right crime of humanity.

The blacks who were brought to America as slaves.  Were sold into slavery to be sent to America by other powerful and greedy blacks in Africa, their original homeland. Other's of their own race, who saw the money they could make and the power they could acquire.  By selling out their own race of people into slavery.  The black community leaders of today are no different.

Will the American Democratic Party continue to run down the road to ruin. Or will they see the light and redeem themselves?

The Democratic party needs to do some serious soul searching, fairly fast.  If it wants to continue forward with any visible level of integrity and credibility as a viable political party in the majority of American's eyes.  Allowing itself to once again be seen as a "party of the people." As opposed to "the party of Obama."

It's undeniable fact that the Democrat party's history of being the "party of Obama" has cost them everything in power, integrity and credibility.  To know this all you have to do is look at the midterm elections.  When they are running as a party without Obama on the ticket.  Let's look back over the last six years with the Democrat party taking on the role of "the party of Obama."  They started, as a party with total control of Congress.  They controlled both the House of Representatives and the Senate, called a Super Majority.  Now after six years of their support of Obama's policies, actions, proven dishonesty, deceit, etc.?  The Democrat party has lost all control of power in Washington politics, outside of Obama.

Obama is not the Democrat party and it appears the majority of Americans recognize this.  Because, when Obama is not on the ticket, Democrats are voted out in droves.  They have been reduced in power in the House of Representatives to a level not seen in almost 100 years, a century... since 1928.

Why?  What is their sin in the eyes of the majority of the American people?  Well considering in the two midterm elections where they got slaughtered in both 2010 and 2014?  Their sin in the eyes of the majority of American voters is their 95% plus allegiance in supporting Obama's policies, actions, regulations and defending his dishonesty, lies and deceit.

There is a unique political dynamic in this current chapter of our country.  Which in fact IS Obama's race, to his advantage and Democrats disadvantage.  As crazy as it seems.  I know people who have voted FOR Obama in two elections, yet voted AGAINST Democrats when Obama was not on the ballot.

What could possibly explain such an oxymoronic voting mentality?  When they are voting in elections where Obama as a person is on the ballot?  They don't want to vote against a black man, because they don't want to feel racist.  BUT, in the midterms elections when Obama is not on the ballot?  They vote AGAINST Democrats because they support Obama's policies 95% plus, of the time they vote in Congress.  Look at the history here.  In 2008 the majority votes for the man, black man, Obama; in 2010 the majority vote against Democrats... Obama's policies; in 2012 the majority votes for the man, black man, Obama; in 2014 the majority votes against Democrats... Obama's policies.  See what I'm talking about?

I'm a person who believes that we do need two viable credible political parties to keep a healthy balance in government.  Which allows push back to some degree against either party on their respective bills.  Because, this forces them to find a way together to squeeze out something positive for the American people.  That which they squeeze out between the two of them.  Is ultimately going to be policy that positively effects ALL Americans.  Which is the whole purpose for the Federal government in the first place.

I've heard people talk about the need for three political parties.  I've thought a lot about it myself.  However, the problem is?  In almost every election that would occur?  The winner of the election would have a majority of the American people whom voted against the winner.  Which will not make for a good healthy situation for the American people.  Because, we would always be forced to live in a strong political discourse environment.  Because, the winner of a three party election would rarely if ever, have been voted into office by a majority of the American people as a whole.  So, we really have no choice to but operate within a two party system.  Which will always ultimately end in an election determined by the majority of the American people as a whole.

People whom have chosen to vote for third party candidates in recent elections?  Although, I understand their frustrations driving that vote.  Their vote ultimately went to the worst of the two evils they saw running in the two party system.  In essence they voted against themselves.  Which ultimately helped no one, including themselves.

The only hope the Democratic party has in rehabilitating itself and redeeming it's destroyed image by Obama and Obama's policies.  Is to once again show themselves and prove themselves to be a "party of the people," not "a party of Obama."  The only way they can do that is to vote against Obama's agendas when necessary for the good of the American people as a whole. As it stands, it appears that the Democratic party has been sucked into something self-destructive they do not know how to work their way out of.  But, they can.  They have to show the American people that they listen to the voices of the American people, as a whole.  Not that they listen to the voice of Obama at the costs of the voices of their own constituents.

If the Republican leadership, completely handed over to the Republican party, by the Democrats.  Passes a bill that Democrats in their own silence inside of them actually can support.  Then puts that bill on Obama's desk, which he vetoes?  That's when the Democrats can show they are a "party of the people," not just a "party of Obama."  By joining with the Republicans to create a presidential veto override majority to pass that bill into law, against Obama's wishes.

The Republicans really did not win total power over Congress.  The Democrats gave total power over Congress to the Republicans.  The Republicans did not win that place of power because the majority of the American people wanted the Republicans to win based on great ideas and merit.  The truth is that the Democrats lost their own place of power.  Due to their continual 95% plus Congressional support of Obama's policies, and approaches.

The majority of Democrat voters DO believe we are a nation of laws.  They DO NOT support Obama's lawless un-Constitutional abuse of his Executive Branch authority through his Executive Orders to make law.  The American people do not want American laws made by Executive Order, against our Constitutional government structure and process.  But, laws created by votes cast by those they elected to represent their voices in the only body of government authorized to make law, Congress.  A president is not guaranteed to get everything he wants passed into law.  That's why we have a government structure as we do, of power checks and balances.  So, no one sole person can make law to impose on all citizens.  Plenty of democrats understand that and respect that.

The Democrat party needs to recognize the obvious that is going on here.  Voiced through these midterm elections.  Where they are voted out in droves, because of their consistent and continual allegiance and support of Obama's policies.  Which ultimately shows, they are not voting against Democrats, but they are voting against Obama's policies.

There was a time when both political parties had ethics, morals, values... lines they would not cross in defying some common ground line of human decency.  But, I believe Obama's political style of divisive politics and "moral relevancy."  Has completely destroyed the ultimate low line of personal integrity both parties once understood you don't cross.  A line that had existed for the overall good of the American people and visible integrity and health of either and both parties and the whole American political landscape.

Lies, deceit, moral corruption, purposeful fraud all served against the American people should never be adopted wholesale by any political party.  As we have seen the Democrat party do for the sake of a President that does not possess the value to serve positive enough for them selling out their integrity and credibility to support him.  At the cost the Democrat party has paid to embrace Obama's political style, tools, ethics and lawlessness.  Which I and am sure many, many Americans, including Democrats, see as below the line of acceptability.